PowerPoint - SHRM
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PowerPoint - SHRM
Corporate Culture and Performance Carolyn “Lyn” Turknett SHRM Symposium August 23, 2016 Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 1 Agenda A bit about culture: How is corporate culture defined? How does culture impact performance? How can we assess culture? A new framework for corporate culture Panel: Nanci Lamborn – Global Head of Human Resources for eVestment, Inc. Robyn Smith – Vice President of Human Resources for Jackson Healthcare Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 2 What is Culture? The shared set of assumptions, beliefs, values, and behavioral patterns of a group that guide that group’s perceptions, judgments, and actions How we do things around here. Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 3 What is Culture? Culture is like the “operating system” of the organization. It guides what people value and how they think, act, and feel. Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 4 Guiding Principles: Leadership and Culture Leadership shapes culture, and senior leaders have the most direct and visible impact on culture. Culture drives financial performance. Organizations need to understand the culture and to be intentional about the culture they want to create. HR practices are a major force in shaping culture. Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 5 Impact of Culture on Performance Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 6 Kotter and Heskett studied... Economic performance AND Strong Cultures Strategically Appropriate Cultures Adaptive Cultures Kotter and Heskett, Corporate Culture and Performance, 1992. Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 7 Impact of Culture on Performance 1000 900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 With Performance Enhancing Cultures Without Performance Enhancing Cultures Revenue Growth Stock Price Growth Kotter and Heskett, Corporate Culture and Performance, 1992 Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 8 Performance Enhancing Cultures Attend to customers, employees and stockholders Are aligned around common goals Are strategically aligned Are run by strong leaders who win employee hearts and minds and provide a high trust environment MOST IMPORTANT: Are responsive to the environment and adaptive Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 9 Culture and Competing Values Internal Focus Flexibility and Individuality Clan Culture Adhocracy Culture Hierarchy Culture Market Culture Stability and Control Competing Values Framework developed by Robert Quinn. See Cameron, Kim S. and R.E. Quinn, Diagnosing and Changing Corporate Culture. Diagram from Paul McDonald and Jeffrey Gandz, “Getting Value from Shared Values,” Organizational Dynamics corporate culture collection. Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 10 Correlations of Culture Items & Financial Results – Top Items External Focus: Aware of market trends and opportunities and adapts strategy .67 Nimbleness: Organization responds rapidly to trends, opportunities, and threats. Consistently fast in getting new products to market. Flexible and not tied down to predetermined approach .61 Competitor Awareness: Information about competition influences decisions .60 Aggressiveness: Aggressively seeks out and takes advantage of opportunities .58 Teamwork at Top: Management is cohesive and aligned team .58 Vision: Employees excited about vision and future .58 Hagberg Consulting Group “Cultural Assessment Tool” 2003 Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 11 Correlations of Culture Items & Financial Results Long-term Time Horizon—Takes long-term, proactive approach .54 Confidence in Management—the company is well-managed .53 Trust in Employees—Actions of management demonstrate employees are trusted .52 Learning Organization—Continuous learning is a high priority .51 Risk Taking—Risk taking is supported and encouraged .50 Customer Driven—Management spends good deal time with customers & partners .49 Broader Meaning—Employees are motivated and inspired by the organizations goals .48 Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 12 Leadership Integrity & Trust Pay Off Study by Tony Simon reported in HBR in 2002 Studied Holiday Inns and measured trust in management When trust was high: Revenue was high Profitability was high Customer sat was high Occupancy rate was high Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 13 SMD-HR Research – What Drives the Bottom Line? SMD-HR looked across companies at relationship between employee survey items and outcome measures. The two categories that drove financial performance in the most organizations were Management (especially direct management) Senior Management. Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 14 SMD-HR Research – What Drives the Bottom Line? (cont.) Individual items most predictive of bottom line results: In the Senior Management Category: “Senior management’s actions support this organization’s mission and values” and “I have confidence in senior management’s leadership.” In the Management category: “The person I report to creates an environment of trust” and “I receive useful feedback from the person to whom I report.” Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 15 Leadership Character Model™ Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 16 Assessing Culture Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 17 Assessing Culture – Quick ideas • “Edgar Schein” model • Anthropological: Observation, Interviews and Focus Groups • Review of documents, reports, values statements, HR practices, physical settings, artifacts, etc. • Surveys: • http://business.salary.com/company-personality-style/ • Competing Values: https://www.enterpriseireland.com/en/Events/OurEvents/Finance-for-Growth/CultureQuestionnaire-April-12.pdf • Meeting “Word Cloud” • 10 Cards for each person – one word per person • Type all into a document and paste into wordle.com Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 18 As an anthropologist… Voice of the Elders: Who are the elders? How are they treated? What do they say? How does one become an elder? Legends and Stories: What stories and legends do people hear when they first join our village? Whom do they hear the stories from? What new stories have they heard lately? Communications: What are the formal channels of communication? What informal communication channels exist and who uses them? Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 19 How we behave when… We want to be promoted? We need to confront a difficult issue? We want to celebrate? We want our teammates to like us? A policy is handed down that we don’t understand? We have a deadline that’s too tight? Someone doesn’t meet a deadline? A decision has got to be made? Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 20 A New Model of Culture Five Key Parts of the Culture House Changing Culture Assess Current Culture and Articulate Desired Culture Use an appreciative approach – honor the past as you assess and as you create the desired culture Start change at the top but communicate and involve For the “center section” – strategic and brand alignment – change processes, structure, decisionmaking, and shifts will follow [Lorsch & McTague, HBR April 2016] HR processes – competency models, selection, development, performance management, succession - provide great leverage Involve top talent in creating new culture – team projects in Leadership Development design Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 23 Panel Discussion Robyn Smith Jackson Healthcare Nanci Lamborn eVestment Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 24 Turknett Leadership Group Turknett Leadership Character Model ™ Lturknett@turknett.com 770.270.1723 Carolyn “Lyn” Turknett, President & co-founder Turknett Leadership Group • www.turknett.com 25